2014 News Archive

Artist rendering of the redeveloped Sibley Building.
Latest NewsDecember 16, 2014

High Tech Rochester (HTR) will expand its operations to the center of Rochester, creating an incubation facility that will serve as the cornerstone of the city’s new innovation zone.  The $24 million facility will be located in the Sibley Building.

HTR LaunchPad Program
December 15, 2014

Program participants run the gamut from teams firmly established in the software business to recent graduates just starting their software companies. Free of charge with a competitive application process, the HTR LaunchPad provides support for up to ten startup companies or teams, providing one year of advisory services and access to HTR’s incubation facilities, including an initial 12-week program.

Brain and Cognitive Sciences
December 15, 2014

Cognitive scientists at the ÌìÃÀÊÓƵ say they have an alternative to the standard explanation for why order matters when the human mind processes information. Instead of ignoring the order in which people receive information, they embrace it.

Big Data
December 13, 2014

From Poets and Quants: How does Netflix recommend TV shows and movies for you? How does the Center for Disease Control predict the spread of infectious diseases? All of these questions can be answered by some (relatively) simple big data analysis. Business analytics and big data analysis courses are popping up at MBA programs at a frenzied pace. 

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December 12, 2014

Professor Gonzalo Mateos will be offering a new course on the science of networks. This course will provide students with the mathematical tools and computational training to understand large-scale networks in the current era of Big Data.

Business Analytics
December 8, 2014

Simon Business School is responding to rapid change in the ever-growing “Big Data” world by revamping its existing MS program in business analytics curriculum to address these shifting needs.

Hinson
December 1, 2014

A student helps harness the power of the Internet to bring new players to an old pastime.

Data Visualization
November 24, 2014

Check out the the winning images to the data visualization contest sponsored by the Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI).

Jiebo Luo
November 11, 2014

The Institute for Data Science's Jiebo Luo, a professor of computer science, is co-organizing a workshop titled "Social Media Data Mining" for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) in Shenzhen, China, December 14 - 17, 2014.

Are You Important?
November 11, 2014

There are many, many questions network science can answer. But to get a sense of how it all works, let's start with one that haunts most of humanity at one time or another: "Am I important?"

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November 10, 2014

multi-layer map of Bermuda
November 1, 2014

How is digital technology helping scholars interested in cultural history understand the past? And will you one day ‘visit’ long-lost places?

screenshot of MathLab program
October 17, 2014

If you have the right skills, Google is really enthusiastic to hear from you. Especially if you know how to use MatLab, a code and data analysis and management tool. (BusinessInsider)

Mike Lyons at football stadium
September 15, 2014

As director of the Buffalo Bills’ first analytics department, Mike Lyons ’88S (MBA) has parlayed his passion for the team into a head-office position that he calls a “dream come true.”

stock image of a pencil drawing a chart
June 26, 2014

From Forbes: Graduates who understand fundamental methods of machine learning — or data mining and predictive analytics — are in high demand across all industries, says Henry Kautz.

View of data visualization lab
June 23, 2014

The VISTA Collaboratory completes a high performance supercomputing system on a massive scale and is one of only a handful of similar labs in the U.S.

Danny Wegman
April 1, 2014

In recognition of a $10 million lead gift to the Institute of Data Science, the institute's new landmark building will be named for the Wegman family.